...Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting; Father, the Prince of Peace. [looses xi. 1.] When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." Whence amongst the Jews, at the time of our Saviour's appearance, Messias and the son of God were convertible...

...to accept of the honours intended for them, he is said to call them, and they to be his (alled ; " When Israel was a child, then I loved him and •Called my son out of Egypt." " Hearken unto me, O Jacob," says the prophet Isaiah, " and Israel my called." Had the children of...

...Israel, be utterly cut off; there shall no long time need, for the accomplishment of this judgment. XI. 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. When Israel was but newly entered into league and covenant with me, then I loved him ; and called that...

...unto .them " Ye are the SONS of the Living God." ' In ch. xi. 1, we have another similar expression, ' When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my SON out of Egypt.' In 2 Sam. vii. 14, we find Nathan directed to say respecting Solomon, in the name of God, ' I will...

...son.'" The won!s are directly spoken of the people of Israel, as the passage foregoing evinceth : " When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." But these •words are applied by the evangelist unto the Lord Christ, Matt. ii. 15. and that because...

...in the wretched circumstances, thus impressively delineated, God loved him. Hosea, chapter xi. 1. " When Israel was a child then I loved him and called my son out of Egypt." Deuteronomy, chapter i. verse 31. And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy...

...and they are said to have been DELIVERED-}", SAVED^, PURCHASED'). REDEEMED^. He is said to CALL them: "When Israel was a child, then I loved him,, and called my son out of Egypt§.'' He is said to CREATE them, to GIVE THEM LIFE, to have BEGOTTEN them**. • Deut. x. IS. |j Peut. xxxii....

...prophecy is to be found ; the only one that bears an) resemblance is in Hosea (xi. 1), which says, "when Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. As they called them so they went from them : they sacrificed unto Balaam, and burnt incense to graven...

...subject from common sense. In the prophet Hosea, at the eleventh chapter and first verse, we read, " When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt:" and this, as Collins and Mr. English have well ohserved, is no prophecy at all.* It is clearly no prophecy....

...which has been a very thorn in the sides of commentators, "out of Egypt have I called my son ;" or, " when Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." Observe, how the comparison stands between Israel and Christ. Israel was sent down from Canaan into...